hyperparameter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A parameter of a prior (as distinguished from inferred parameters of the model for the underlying system under analysis).
Example Sentences
- "this model has four hyperparameters"
- "The exact interpretation of these hyperparameters becomes clearer once you have seen their role in the posterior and, hence, we defer a deeper discussion of prior elicitation until the next section."
- "The ideal learning algorithm just takes a dataset and outputs a function, without requiring hand tuning of hyperparameters."
- "“Model behaviour is not determined by architecture, hyperparameters, or optimizer choices,” he said, referring to the technical difficulties of training a language model. “It’s determined by your dataset, nothing else. […]”"